Google Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late

Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond… Continua a leggere Google Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late

Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music.

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data-protection policies.

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills

OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty, and staff over the next year.

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle.

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions

Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links

Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.

Running AI models is turning into a memory game

When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs — but memory is an increasingly important part of the picture.

European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks

EU lawmakers found their government-issued devices were blocked from using the baked-in AI tools, amid fears that sensitive information could turn up on the U.S. servers of AI companies.